The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-09-24
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilersby an Ad-
vocate Man,
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stack No. . of the Allentown Iron
Works is being repaired for setting in
blast again.
The Crane Iron Companys furnace at
Catasauqua is lying idle while necessary re-
pairs are being made.
1t is said that the stack of the Allen
town Thread Mill, 227 feet high, will, when
finished, be the loftiest In the United
States.
The employees of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company have formed
an inter-s tate trade assembly. The new
assembly numbers about 10000 members,
distributed among so local assemblies.
When the middleman in the coal busi-
ness is done away with the companies will
make more money, the miners receive more
pay, and the consumers cheaper coal.
The middlemen ought to go. LdRJord
Record. Our views to T.
The Catasauqra Manufacturing Com
pany's new mill at Ferndale will be ready
for turning out muck bar by Nov. LIST, The
mill will be very comfortable to work in,
the roof being high, the furnaces far enough
apart and the place open to every breeze,
The only safe Anti-Pcverty Society is
for each man, rich or poor, to enlist his
whole household in earning all that can be
earned by legitimate industry and always
spending less than is earned. Such people
are the only practical members of a practi-
cal Anti-Poyerty Society.
The strike still continues in the Lehigh
coal region, and indications lead observers
to think that il will not meet with an early
settlement. Coal barons, used to hound
ing their men, have but little inclination
20 give in afte years of domineering' and so
the strike goes on, while the poor and op-
pressed, firm and determined, watch every
action of the operators. Success to the
miners.
Let there be hearty and healthy CO.
operation between employer and employee /;
do away with the strike system. And ar
bitrade all matters of wrong which arise
in the field of labor The striking miners
are but putting money into the hand of the
coal barons ard the poor throughout the
valley mnst feel the hall of OPPRESSION by
higher prices for everything The coal
barons must go, the oppressor of the poor
who evict families from their miserable
dwellings ale inhuman beings.
Since it became known that Mr.. Pow
derly would not accept denomination as
General Master Workman of the Knights
of Labor a movement has been started in
Pittsburg to push John Jarrett, ex-Presi-
dent of the Amalganaten Association, for
the position. His ability. experience and
conservatism, it is held, would enable him
to discharge the duties of the office with
satisfaction TO all the elements of the or
ganization. 1t is understood Mr. jarrett
will accept the place if il should be rendered
to him. He will have strong backing from
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The situation of the anthracite coal
trade has not changed materially during
the past week. Notwithstanding the strike
of the miners in the Lehigh district there is
no scarcity of coal excepting egg size, and
no attempt has been made to force an ad-
vance in the selling prices of anthracite.
The scarcely of rolling stock prevents the
shipment to the west of coal, for which
good prices be had if transportation facili-
ties were available. The Reading Railroad
management are to be congratulated upon
the amicable settlement made with their
miners, witch averted strike in the
Schuylkill region.
Any foreign tramp or pauper who has
railroad ticket from the seaboard to the
West can land at any of our harbors and 90
on his way. But foreign merchancs who
are valuable enough to be worth contract
ing with Iii advance cannot land upon our
soil. FIVE women from Belfast were sent
back from Boston the other day because,
being experts in the manufacture of a
certain high grade of linen twine, a Long
Island manufacturer had thought it well to
engage their services and advance their
passage money A law which operates in
the, way must soon or late become a dead
letter, unless, indeed, it be elaborately
evaded by specially devised tckets.-Phild.
Record.